European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 4, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 a the stars and stripes faces a places Friday december 4,1902he Calls it Art but secret service Calls it crime looking Sharp a tar Deal Good Tike a Vrh Ite piano Complete with a 300-horsepower v-8 engine. Is displayed at the Essen motor show in Essen Germany a City in the country s Northwestern Ruhr Region. The show runs through sunday from wire reports to . Boggs his bogus Bills Are Art. To the secret service they re funny Money. Since the mid-1980s, he has bartered the Bills for goods and services in a kind of artistic Exchange in which those who accept his Money Are tracked Down by collectors who real Cash for Boggs artwork. But Pittsburgh police and secret service agents weren to interested in the artistic value of the Cash. Four agents and two police officers stopped Boggs As he left his apartment wednesday to attend a ceremony where he had planned to announce a new project the printing of $1 million in his own Bills. A they said i was a counterfeiter a Boggs said. A they done to understand the difference Between Art and the agents searched Boggs apartment for about three hours and seized about 100 drawings and paintings of Money actual currency Ana receipts Boggs said. They also searched Boggs office at Carnegie Mellon University where he is a fellow in Art and ethics. Boggs 37, has reproduced currency of a number of countries and his a a Money has been deemed Art by courts in Britain and Australia. He uses coloured Ink and pencils to draw his Bills and a color photocopy machine to reproduce them. A a in be consciously made my Bills different enough that you can to fool somebody with them a Boggs said. Boggs dollars Are the same size As regular . Currency with Green printing on both sides. But they say Pittsburgh pa., instead of Washington d.c., and Cany Boggs signature and the line a the unit of state of he a a spends his Art by explaining to waiters clerks and bartenders that he is an artist and wants to Exchange his Art for goods or services. The transactions often evolve into discussions about the meaning of Art Money and life Boggs said. He insists on receiving change a real Money a for the Bills he makes and he Sells the change and receipts to collectors for Many times More than the value of the change. Collectors then use the receipts to track Down those who accept his Money and hundreds of dollars for the Boggs bins. Each transaction is Complete when the parts of the Deal a the Boggs Bills the change and the receipt a Are framed proudly on a collectors Wall. Boggs estimates he has exchanged his Bills for More than $250,000 in goods and services including lavish meals hotel rooms Jewely air plane tickets drinks clothes and a $5,000 cited in Brawl a Brawl broke out Early wednesday at a Sunset Boulevard nightclub in West Hollywood calif., and when it was Over Beverly Hills 90210 Star Shannen Doherty and an aspiring actress were slapped with Misdemeanour charges. The fight began after Dohertym a Date co Star Brian Austin Green stepped on the toes of Bonita Money s Boyfriend authorities said. A the girls started shoving each other around. Both women were Adamant about having each other arrested a said Roger Horn a sheriffs Deputy. Green 21, and Money a escort George Jackson 34, did no to get involved in the fight and weren to cited Horn said. Doherty plays Brenda Walsh the sometime Girlfriend of heartthrob Luke Perry s character on the Fox network show about pampered High school students in Beverly Hills. Green plays David Silver. Doherty 21, and Money 32, who weren to Hurt were issued Misdemeanour Battery citations and released. They must appear in municipal court on dec. 22 for arraignment.7 am a soft touch Rock Star Phil Collins says he a a softy when it comes to giving. Collins who has just completed a world tour with his group genesis said he always replies to the 30-40 pleas he receives each week. A a psychologist might say it is guilt at earning so much Money from doing what you enjoy a Collins said in London. A sometimes you give it sometimes you lend it or maybe you just say no. But i am a soft face is her own Ginger Rogers the movie Star famous for her dance sequences with Fred Astaire on wednesday reached a settlement with a California greeting card company that she said used Ner image on a birthday card without her consent. Rogers was the Only living Star in the cards picture montage that included James Dean Marilyn Monroe and the cast of the wizard of of. Rogers filed a lawsuit in the circuit court of Dane county wis., after learning the card was being sold in Madison at the Canterbury Bookstore. Attorneys for Portal publication Ltd. Of Corte Medera calif., and Rogers told judge Mark Frankel that they had reached a settlement. Unless one of the parties proves the other has broken the agreement Rogers suit will be dismissed dec. 18. The attorneys a build not comment on How my Civ Portal has agreed to . Normally Rogers charges $50,000 for the use of her still too hot the japanese publisher of Madonna s Book sex May face obscenity and Tariff Law violation charges despite toning Down the japanese version officials said wednesday. The metropolitan police and the Tokyo customs office said their investigators have begun questioning representatives of the Dohonna a Kyoto based publishing company. The japanese version with a compact disc went on Sale tuesday at 6,000 yen. Or $48, police officials said the Book was suspected to have violated the nations obscenity standards. Those unspecified standards generally ban photographs from showing genitals or pubic hair. The obscenity Law provides for punishment of up to two years in prison and a Fine of $40. I m i m m i m i i j i us i f i a i m i a i m i Christmas Art contest choose one or More of the following to draw and color Rudolph the Reindeer Christmas tree Santa snowman Gingerbread Man the top prize a Bike will be awarded to the first place Winner in each category. Second and third place winners will receive other special prizes. Fifteen gift wrapped children s books will be awarded in each category. Read the rules carefully. Happy drawing rules Junior family members of anyone entitled to logistical support Are urged to enter the contest children of stars and stripes employees Are not eligible and try to win one of the two categories. Here Are the rules a contestants Are divided into two groups Ages 3-7 and Ages 8-12. A entries must be postmarked no later than dec. 7. A use any medium. Originality is encouraged. A decisions of the judges will be final a artwork must be submitted on 8 1/2" by 1 r paper. A this entry form must be attached to the Back of the artwork. A entries become property of Hie stars and stripes. No entries will be returned a include your age name address and Telephone number see below a Matt at least one of the flue drawings multiple entries Are encouraged in a single envelope to Christmas Art european stars and stripes unit 29480 Apo a 09211 in a single envelop Al name a sponsor address Telephone no
